Top Google Interview Questions

Adib M. - "Manage Programs that are in flight Track the progress vs Plan and see if things are on track, falling behind Monitor Risks and update current and any new risks identified and mitigation approach Communicate updates to stakeholders (weekly/biweekly as agreed) Communicate status to peer TPM and partnering teams Daily sync with Engg (like a timeboxed daily Standup to understand Daily Plan and any impediments raised that need resolving) Facilitate Reviews with Product Manager as features"See full answer

Parth P. - "Establish more servers on regional bases or locally and move network traffic to these servers instead of keeping on one server."See full answer

Aaron W. - "Clarification questions What is the purpose of connecting the DB? Do we expect high-volumes of traffic to hit the DB Do we have scalability or reliability concerns? Format Code -> DB Code -> Cache -> DB API -> Cache -> DB - APIs are built for a purpose and have a specified protocol (GET, POST, DELETE) to speak to the DB. APIs can also use a contract to retrieve information from a DB much faster than code. Load balanced APIs -> Cache -> DB **Aut"See full answer

Cristina E. - "The main strength is the huge market size that it already has. Other strength is the way google works is really familiar to everyone who use android Challenge Increase the revenue if the volume keeps at the same level Keep being in the top of mind on the users with the high competence"See full answer

Sneha D. - "Design a university voting app"See full answer

Jaim - "Whenever I find resistance to my idea, my general approach is to : Validate my idea Identify if it is a political reason or is it a valid engineering tech reason Assuming it is not political but it is resource/difference of opinions that are causing resistance. Then I would try to do a quick POC and show a value proposition for the idea to get the buy-in. One similar situation happened The situation was that stakeholders were promised a feature that would decrease their number of ticket"See full answer

Darpan D. - "Clarifying and Assumptions When we say New York City, does this mean just Downtown New York or also the suburbs? Assumption: It means Downtown New York only. Is the bike-sharing service like Uber, where people share their own bikes, or is it a service run by a company with bike stands on street corners? Assumption: It’s run by a private company with bike stands on street corners. Will the bike-sharing service start as free, or will we charge people from the beginning?"See full answer

Agyt J. - "Getting product requirements right first : -- Gmail App to be used only within 24 humans in Mars -- Mars is a very hostile environment with extremely low temperatures and zero O2. Hardware operating in sub zero temp. Hardware probably doesn't need cooling. Battery life is restricted. -- Assume that people would be wearing specialized suites. Visibility and Listening capability is ok, however, their ability to use their fingers is severely restricted -- Greatly voice enabled and a speaking app --"See full answer

Peter H. - "Google Glass, first released in 2014, failed spectacularly due to its well-publicized issues around privacy concerns. Few will forget the term 'glassholes' for those who use Google Glass ability to record everyday life, potentially without any permission from those being recorded. However, Augmented Reality is now much closer to the public imagination. Augmented reality will go through many iterations. Important for user acceptance is that the glasses look and feel just like normal glasses. Th"See full answer

Srikanth A. - "Clarify - What is the product ? Autonomous driving capability Technology as a vehicle to drive man driver capability What is the current stage of project ? Technology is ready I will start by understanding the Goal, Intention behind this initiative as I am considering myself new PM joined this team and I have to come up with go to market strategy. Goal - More users to adopt and build trust with self driving car capability. Target user persona End user Businesses -Rideshare service -Food"See full answer

Raj M. - "Never a straight-forward answer. Assuming that this is a company goal to increase ad revenues from Chrome, try and understand the reason for the negative feedback. Is it a systematic issue (ads generally do lower overall user experience) or a specific issue (quality of ads, technical issues)? If the latter, fix that and run the experiment again. If former, how does this compare to user experience for other products with or without ads (YT vs YT premium)? If it above benchmarks, then pause. If in"See full answer

Sofiya H. - "Context / clarifying questions: Should I assume this is part of Google company? Let’s assume yes Let’s assume we’re building this for Waymo, Google parent company Self-driving cars industry today It’s evolving a lot. I do not have much information on the industry but I know Waymo self driving cars are progressing and there are self-driving taxis already running. Why are we building this and why are we building this now Mainly to understand if this makes sense to"See full answer

fuzzyicecream14 - "Situation: As a Product Manager at Cisco, I was leading the development of a new highly critical product for enterprise customers. Midway through the project, a key engineering team was reassigned due to an urgent security patch, leaving us understaffed with only six weeks left before a critical customer pilot. Task: I had to ensure the product launched on time without sacrificing key features, despite losing half of our engineering team. The challenge was to"See full answer

James M. - "Break down into: OPEX #Employees x $avg. cost per employee $Overhead (mktg, legal, compliance) Content cost (creator payments) 80% of advert. revenue Elec, cooling, maintenance CAPEX #Data centers Avg servers per data center Avg. cost $ per server"See full answer

Anonymous Tiger - "Clarify question and state assumptions: Streetview from my understanding is compiled by a streetview car going out and taking multiple photos and then Google stitches this together to give us streetview. I'm only going to look at the streetview outdoor experience, I know for e.g Google also has full views of some businesses, malls, museums etc so for the purposes of this I'm not going to calculate this. For the purposes of this is it OK if we say how much storage required to store streetview"See full answer

fuzzyicecream14 - "App I Don’t Like: Electrify America What Electrify America Is Supposed to Do Electrify America is an app designed to help electric vehicle (EV) owners locate, access, and pay for fast-charging stations across the U.S. The app provides real-time station availability, allows users to initiate and monitor charging sessions, and offers membership plans for discounted rates. Ideally, it should enable a seamless charging experience, especially for long-distance travelers relying on i"See full answer

Ben G. - "Situation - A time where I encouraged my work team to be more creative and innovative was while I was directing design at Blade Urban Air Mobility. Long story short, they had no creative programs in place for cross collaboration and innovation. Action - I introduced Figma into the product workflow, and set up time with the technical team to demo and go over the basics of the program. This allowed everyone to collaborate on the designs, leave comments and streamline the process of creative dev"See full answer

Sanket W. - "Launched a new variant of credit card loaded with Health and Wellness Benefit"See full answer

Glados - "Clarifying questions 1/ Any other products in VC portfolio I need to be aware of - "no" 2/ Market focus? - "no" Started off by stating database marketing 1/ SQL 2/ NoSQL Data models mostly relational Database trends 1/ Vector databases 2/ Growth in cloud / fully managed databases 3/ Multi cloud is important to avoid vendor lock in Ultimately Price/performance is king Competition 1/ Large cloud providers - AWS/GCP/Azure 2/ Legacy databases - Oracle/SQL Server 3/ Niche players - Vitess, Coc"See full answer

Yasin E. - "25 min"See full answer